Friday, September 18, 2009

Friday, September 18, 2009

As I'm sure you've guessed, this was for the shop teacher who'd just returned to work after accidentally cutting off his thumbs. Naturally they served him a whole hand, too, which he then had to eat without the benefit of a fork:

jen, did you see leno last night? (not that i watch!) dl hughgely had a bake sale to help california's budget deficit. he hired a bakery who baked a Wildfire cake, an earthquake cake, and cookie pops that looked like Angelina's children. Good stuff!

Okay, I gotta get them out of my system:"Gotta hand it to you!""Is this the dessert you get if you order a knuckle sandwich?""It's good to see that Thing finally got married.""I love thumbing through the cake catalogues.""I pinky swear, if you give me your digits, I'll take you to Palm Beach on our first date."

Hmm, Awkward cake photos? How about "Cake-engrish" wishing you much "Happy-Marriage..." yeah, I'm just going to think that the dark chocolate videogame cake was made by a Japanese bakery who doesn't even know what the two english words mean... you know, as apposed to thinking it is a grooms cake or anything like that...

I saw Glee and thought Wrectastic! Then when I explained why I was laughing I toldmy hubby about the totally Cake Wreck worthy cake. So glad to see it here and so impressed that you have set a standard for us all.

I could be wrong, but I don't see much happy in a marriage where obviously someone (being kind and not automatically assuming it'd be the guy) plays PSP so much that their spouse is forced to sever their thumbs!

I'll give this post a few thumbs up. It shocks me what people want you to put on a cake. I don't think partial body parts belong on any kind of a cake that doesn't include a halloween theme. Oh wait I just did one this weekend with a dismembered foot in a grave. Guess I should keep my mouth shut.I LOVE your site!

Excellent timing. I was just making my son's birthday cake this morning. He asked for a dinosaur so I made a 3-D one, definitely not wrecky ;-) As I was piping the nails on to the feet I thought to myself "I don't think I've ever put toenails on a cake before."

I saw that episode of Glee. So glad you put a pic of that awesome cake! The best part was watching the guy trying to eat it with no thumbs. Love that it was a roomful of guys trying to cheer him up. Well played!

I'm so glad you included the Glee cake in the wreckage today. All I could think when I watched the episode was "that cakes belongs on Cake Wrecks!" Then I found myself wondering if the script writer and props people are secret CW fans, and were aiming for a mention on the blog. One can only hope!

I'm kind of wondering if the person the show hired to make that wreck-tastic cake was so good at their job that they could make it look disgusting and slightly badly made or whether they hired a genuine wreckorator.

I'm glad you caught the Glee cake, I was looking for screen caps of it yesterday to send you!

I have actually made a severed finger cookie (gingerbread complete with jam filling blood and marshmallow bone) for the spouse the year Sweeny Todd came to our area for Christmas stuck out of a meat pie with tickets underneath, and while it was gross ^_^ and good-natured, these are a bit disturbing.

Oh, Jen! I was laughing my head off while watching that most recent show of Glee. I wanted to run right over and post a comment so you'd write a blog about it. Unfortunately, our computer was still on the blink!

Same here :-) But I *thought* people would have better taste in real life. (Obviously, I'm a slow learner. After all, if Cake Wrecks has taught us anything, it's that there are plenty of disturbed people out there! And that many of them, apparently, have jobs in bakeries.)

Does no one else think that the *hands* on the first cake look like gorilla feet?Because they do; those hands are distorted, disproportionate, and anatomically CREEPY. Palms are supposed to be a bit concave, not all bulgey and gross...(Hmmmm, kind of like my ex father-in-law's...Come to think of it, HE looked like a gorilla.)Can we change the subject?=^uu^=

I wonder if there are any walnut cakes involving thumbs.... Might be a sinister takeover by our distant neighbors the twiloites... Anyway with all the talk of digits and TV shows that just popped into my head...

I find VeggieT's comment (September 18, 2009 9:44 AM) quite offensive. Why do some people automatically believe ALL the misspelled (or grammatically incorrect) Cake Wrecks are done by non-native speakers of English? I wish you (CW's moderators) will not allow such comments as this one by VeggieT to be published in the future.

You know, maybe this is just one of those instances when I am Mr. Positive, but when I meet someone who speaks broken English, my response is always, "Don't feel bad...you speak much better English than I speak (fill in the blank)." Dutch. Spanish. Swahili. I admire those who have taken the time to learn my language and I am pretty ashamed of myself for never quite learning one myself. Aside from the cursing, of course. I can curse in 9 languages.

All that to say that I guess I think it's kinder to assume that the baker speaks 12 language pretty well and struggles with a few phrases than to assume that the baker is unintelligent.

On a side note, I found it interesting that I was immediately inclined to be offended on your behalf even though I don't agree with you. I even read Veggie T's comment several times to see if I should take it down. I think we Americans have been so well trained that we're always ready to be offended.

I saw that episode of glee and immediately thought of cake wrecks. And I loved when they gave him the entire thumb. :) Glad to see it on here...Now what I am wondering is why anyone would ever need a cake of a severed finger!

Serves them broads right. I CAN'T STAND the whole "YOUR special day" bridzilla ubbersexism business. Like it's not HIS day, too. Like, non-brides or post-brides never have "special days". Like getting married means Bridzilla somehow became a superior being compared to the rest of us slobs. (For you fellow Catholics, this does count as a sin of idolatry. Hit the floor and give me twenty Hail Mary's, you white-dressed #*@@(%!!!) ARGGHHH!!!!!

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